Are your ears part of your face?

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I'm bursting to answer this poll but I feel so superstitious about answering like my ears might disappear in protest of I answer wrong

[davidnjoku@mastodon.world]

@catmisgivings And then you'd have to wear a monocle instead of glasses. It's about time someone made them cool again

[chris_e_simpson@hachyderm.io]

@davidnjoku need a "can't decide" option for me and, I'm guessing, 11 million other mastodon users.

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world my dad briefly wore a monocle. Only one eye needed correction!

[airwhale@beige.party]

@davidnjoku

Most definitely yes, at least on the Brittish Isles and Ireland. (See also Shane McGowan, the current Sovereign and plenty of others.)

[len@nyan.network]

@davidnjoku don't ask me such difficult questions, my brain can't handle it!

[mamalake@beige.party]

@davidnjoku if I draw someone without ears, did I draw their full face?

[pisheng@shih.ch]

@davidnjoku A breathtaking finale

[arjan@todon.nl]

@davidnjoku
are your ears part of my face when I bite them?

[davidnjoku@mastodon.world]

@pisheng I've been enjoying watching it. The Yeses were nowhere at the start - just around 20%. Now they're making a comeback

[semantikast@openbiblio.social]

@davidnjoku Dunno why but in German we have an expression "an ass/a butt with ears" ("Arsch mit Ohren") and somehow that popped into my head

[outer@mas.to]

@davidnjoku @DrorBedrack I'm shocked! Shocked!

[beecycling@wandering.shop]

@davidnjoku If ears are face then earmuffs are masks.

I voted no, but I'm now thinking about animals whose ears stand up on top of their heads, especially if they face forward and maybe even move, changing the look of their face.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@davidnjoku

ears do convey expression and do interact with the facial/vocal muscles, so yes. Ears are absolutely part of the face.

[timmymac@social.vivaldi.net]

@davidnjoku I went with no, becasue while I"m comfortable with my cauliflower ears, I'm not sure I'd feel as good about having cauliflower face.

[skua@mastodon.social]

@davidnjoku

Forehead, temples, cheeks, jaw - the outer edges?

Top of head, hmm?, ears, side of neck, under-jaw, throat - next to the human face?

[marcotietz@infosec.exchange]

@davidnjoku glad we settled that!

[davidnjoku@mastodon.world]

Is your bum part of your legs?

[menneisyytesi@eliitin-some.fi]

@davidnjoku no, they are just good friends

[denny@boing.world]

@davidnjoku Having had relatively extensive reconstructive surgery on my right leg after a car nearly killed me, I can answer this one! The answer is 'no', because medically-speaking your leg is only the bit from the knee down.

It makes slightly more sense if you think about animal legs and how they're articulated.